THE BBC runs a competition called “Women’s Footballer of the Year”.
In drawing up a shortlist, they have one job. And that’s to select a woman who plays football.
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Doesn’t sound terribly onerous, does it? Plenty of women around who play football, aren’t there?
But the BBC couldn’t quite manage that task. Because on the shortlist was the Zambian player Barbra Banda.
Barbra certainly plays football. And when up against women, is rather good. Trouble is, Babs ain’t what you or I would call a woman.
Instead, Babs is rather closer to what you or I would call a bloke.
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Banda plays for the Zambian national team. However, the player was withdrawn from the 2022 African Cup of Nations. Because it was claimed she — or maybe more properly he — did not meet the gender verification criteria.
There are lots of things which might be responsible for that, such as having male levels of testosterone. Or generally having a male physique.
But the BBC was happy to let Banda be named Women’s Footballer of the Year. Probably, knowing the BBC, even happier than if Barbra had actually been a, you know, young lady.
They like to make a progressive political point at the BBC.
Needless to say there were howls of outrage from within the game. And plenty more outside it.
Largely from women who believe that it’s only fair to let women compete against other women. Rather than against men who are born stronger and faster.
Harry Potter author JK Rowling, for example, had this to say: “Presumably the BBC decided this was more time efficient than going door to door to spit directly in women’s faces.”
Ouch! But she’s right, isn’t she? Because the selection of Banda is an insult not only to women footballers, but to all women.
Deranged argument
Right now women’s sport is in an absolute crisis — all because of the counter-rational and truly idiotic insistence that blokes who say they are women but are actually men should be allowed to compete against women.
It’s taken years for women’s sport to be taken as seriously as men’s sport. And now, suddenly, just as women’s football has really taken off, guess what?
The men-women people are inveigling their way in.
It’s not just football, of course. A recent United Nations report suggested that transgender athletes have taken a total of 900 medals away from real women across 29 different sporting disciplines.
That’s kinda shocking. And remember, this report was from the UN which is about as progressive as it gets.
I thought this battle was well on the way to being won. More and more sports bodies are outlawing transgender competitors having previously allowed this fraud.
Everywhere, the deranged argument that insists blokes who say they are women really are women is in rapid retreat.
Common sense has been allowed back into the argument.
But not at the BBC, of course. They are determined to carry on flying the banner for a cause which even some of the transgender activists have given up on.
One day, not too far down the line, this last decade will be regarded as being really very, very odd.
The obsession with gender politics. The general determination not to allow sanity to have its say.
But when Barbra picks up the award, 90 per cent of those watching will know the truth. That the award should really have gone to a WOMAN.
ALERTS OFTEN HOT AIR
WHY did Storm Bert cause so much damage to the country?
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Hundreds and hundreds of homes underwater. Communities evacuated.
There have been complaints that there were not enough early warnings.
But the Met Office said: “Storm Bert was well forecast, 48 hours in advance, with a number of warnings in place ahead of the system reaching the UK.”
So what went wrong, then? Here’s my guess. It’s about the boy who cried wolf.
You know the story. EVERY weather front which approaches the UK gets the same treatment. With the forecasters shrieking at us “STAY INSIDE!”
In case we are burnt to death. Or drown. Or have our testicles frozen off in a snowstorm. And nine times out of ten there’s no problem at all.
So when they warned us about Bert, we just thought: “Yeah, yeah. Same ol’ same ol’.”
CUT PEP LOOKS HELLISH
WHAT the hell has happened to Pep Guardiola?
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He looks like he’s just done ten rounds with a Tasmanian devil. Scratches and gouges all over his face and head.
Manchester City lost five games on the trot. And then Pep made a comment about self-harming.
The most likely explanation is that Pep was set upon by furious Satanic imps because he had reneged on a deal with their boss.
I can’t prove it, it’s just a guess.
WOKE IS WAL OVER
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THE biggest company in the world has become the latest to ditch its odious DEI policies.
DEI stands for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. It is wokedom gone mad – and racist.
Companies across the Western world are quickly getting rid of this rubbish.
Walmart is removing ALL vestiges of DEI from its company. Well done, Walmart.
In future, with any luck, people will be hired for jobs because they are the best people available.
Not because of the colour of their skins, religion or gender.
ANOTHER anti-Semitic hate crime in London.
This time a bunch of girls walking home from school had bottles thrown at them.
One 14-year-old lass was taken to hospital with a head wound.
Earlier this year, a 16-year-old Jewish lad had to flee in terror when he was pelted with rocks by a mob.
We know who the perpetrators are. Here, just as in France and Belgium and Germany.
But for some reason we’re scared to call it out.
It’s time we started telling the truth about these horrible racist attacks.
SHIRK FORCE DODGE
SO, the Labour Government isn’t going to reform our costly and catastrophic benefits system at all.
They had said they would. But nope, not really.
There are hundreds of thousands of people claiming state money for doing nothing but sitting on their fat arses watching Homes Under The Hammer.
Unless they are threatened with the immediate withdrawal of benefits, they will continue to do so.
And our welfare bill will continue to spiral.
Learn Alien…speak to the Chancellor
THE incredibly esteemed Ubiquity University in California is offering a degree in Extraterrestrial Studies.
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This includes an important module on “How to communicate with aliens”.
At first I had been inclined to snigger at this.
But it’s probably of more practical value than half the courses on offer at our own universities.
In fact, I might sign up, in case I ever have to interview Rachel Reeves.
